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Comment on Giving Back: WordPress Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2024 by Daan van den Bergh

Daan van den Bergh — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:54:07 +0000

Let me know once the submission page is up, so I can finally get in on the magic that is LayerWP!

Comment on Code to Image – Share Screenshots of Your Code on Social Media by Ben

Ben — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 20:17:46 +0000

In reply to Andy Feliciotti. No worries, a useful tool I like it and can see how it could help others!

Comment on Code to Image – Share Screenshots of Your Code on Social Media by Andy Feliciotti

Andy Feliciotti — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 17:15:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Ben!

Comment on The Ultimate WordPress Theme Buying Guide By A Consumer. No Fluff. No Bull. No Affiliate Links. by Ben

Ben — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:28:10 +0000

In reply to Suresh Allu.

Thanks, Suresh, hope it helps, and thanks for your kind words!

Comment on The Ultimate WordPress Theme Buying Guide By A Consumer. No Fluff. No Bull. No Affiliate Links. by Suresh Allu

Suresh Allu — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:44:35 +0000

Ben this is an amazing blog post which is very helpful. You have done great research and your efforts are endless. Good read great post and thanks for sharing

Comment on Astra WordPress Theme In The Bad Books by Felix

Felix — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 10:24:09 +0000

Thank you for speaking up about this.
I have just got approval from a client for a new project which includes using this theme in conjunction with LearnDash LMS plugin.
Now unsure what to do.
I wonder if there are compatible themes that play just as well as Astra does with LearnDash.

Comment on Astra WordPress Theme In The Bad Books by mohamed el zayani

mohamed el zayani — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 08:46:19 +0000

It will only affects the online update of the theme. From operation perspective nothing changes. However you can still download the theme directly from the website.

Comment on Astra WordPress Theme In The Bad Books by Ben

Ben — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 07:15:56 +0000

In reply to Saptak.

Astra has since published an apology here: https://wpastra.com/open-letter/ it would seem they’ve openly admitted they were wrong and are doing their utmost to be transparent in the future and abide by rules.

I dont condone what they did, they got caught. The theme is now back on .org which I find interesting in itself.

The theme I’m using on LayerWP is the blocksy theme so far so good. Quite like it.

Mind you I do change themes like clothes lol!

Comment on Astra WordPress Theme In The Bad Books by Saptak

Saptak — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 03:46:54 +0000

This is definitely bad news for me. I saw the post from the Elementor community from FB and it was really hard for me.
I have been using astra pro for almost 2 + years and used it on all of my clients websites. Now I am not sure what should I do. Themes like these have a lot of options and knowing a theme and how to work with them is not an easy task. So some developers choose a single theme to learn and use it efficiently on sites.

It was easy for me to work around with astra because I was using it for long and knew how to do changed using hooks.

But now I am confused about what should I do. I am certainly changing the theme of my own site for sure. But contacting all my old clients for this may be a very bad idea.

Another which I don’ understand is they were warned about this before so why not remove the links before this happened?

The review teams say they noticed this affiliate link includes a few months ago so they must have discussed this before. right?

There are few things that I did not like about astra before this happened.
1. Astra free and Astra pro have the same number of premade templates to use. So even if you buy the Astra pro you can’t use agency version of the templates. So absolutely no extra templates if you get the pro.
2. earlier they had terms like padding margin etc when you use the customizer which is easy for us to understand but recently they are changing this to something else. this sudden change is confusing old users for sure.

What theme you are using Ben?

Comment on Gutenberg Gets A Bad Rep – Here’s Why It Doesn’t Deserve It. by Felix

Felix — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 14:40:01 +0000

While I can see the new editor being useful for creating pages with better layouts, it should be optional. Maybe a “layout” post-type would have been the better solution (like: let me create a fancy landing page, but don’t mess with my content archive).

Strictly separating content and design is the main reason for using a CMS like WordPress. Being able to manage and archiving your content for decades to come and modernize your frontend by slapping on a new theme is the reason WordPress took over the world.

Keeping content and design separate is the core principal for any CMS … (well … not anymore, at least in the WP world).

Where we take it from here is up to us.

Comment on Gutenberg Gets A Bad Rep – Here’s Why It Doesn’t Deserve It. by Josh Maxwell

Josh Maxwell — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 22:40:14 +0000

I loved gutenberg when i first installed the beta, i built a few custom blocks for it (a nightmare learning curve, but i did it) and loved it so i used it for about 30 websites.

Fast forward one year, and so much has changed that all my websites have 80% broken blocks, and the custom blocks I made are all messed up too. Everyone on my team is constantly confused as to why things keep changing, and i find myself spending half my time fixing new problems that show up

and that doesn’t even account for the bugs in gutenberg itself. i cant count how many ive seen in the last 6 months. ive never filed as many bug reports with any software in my life as i have with gutenberg

you might say “oh just dont use the beta, stick to the official releases” except that they included the latest state of gutenberg in the last wordpress update, so even the official releases are forcing updates on us

this is the most horrific example of what i call update culture. release software in alpha so you can start profitting, knowing youll just push updates later to fix problems. also feature culture, where you pack your software with 1000’s of features so you can catch as wide an audience as possible. you know what they say, jack of all trades, master of none

i had to heavily modify gutenberg to be what i want to to be, and i will give it one HUGE compliment. i was able to modify it to make my websites load in less than a second. they are incredibly fast and my SEO benefits greatly. no other visual builder that i know of can accomplish this, and why that is is a complete mystery to me. of course, why gutenberg (or wordpress for that matter) doesnt create super fast websites out of the box is craziness, and im a 20 year experienced proffessional software engineer so i doubt most people will be able to modify it as i did, so, i still think gutenberg is garbage.

but, to gutenbergs credit, elementor, fusion, squarespace, etc etc… they are all garbage for one reason or another.

i miss dreamweaver

Comment on 30 Best WordPress Themes 2020 Edition (Parody) by Ben

Ben — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:17:49 +0000

In reply to Stefan.

Ah you mean the Jamtaxeu WordPress theme. That one is specially made for Jamican cat pelt taxidermy businesses only in the EU. I believe the webinar stream is something they’re looking into, it’s had lots of interest.

I’ll have to do a round up soon, I think there’s about 150 themes that could be used.